Dave Kellam

If I stay in Canada after school ends, I’ll probably end up living in Vancouver; temperate climate with snow and cold one hour away by car. If I go abroad, it’s likely that I’ll be back in Canada by 2010, the year Vancouver gets to host the olympic winter games.

International organization declares Toronto disease free! Elsewhere national organization promotes concert that will allow disease to propagate to foreign countries if it hasn’t actually disappeared yet.

My sidebar thing doesn’t seem to be updating anymore, it could be this new version of kunglog, but that doesn’t seem quite right. First day of camp tomorrow, i must prepare for the onslaught of little ones. Be brave. Be brave.

Update: of course it wasn’t the software, it was a human error: no closee off anchor tag mean no link appears.

I haven’t really been up to a whole lot lately. We’ve been doing planning and whatnot for camp, that’s where the day goes. The night goes to me sleeping, watching movies and touring around town. I’ve been trying to do some more reading lately; been through You Shall Know Our Velocity (it had me laughing out loud) and the first Harry Potter book, i figure that i should be done the first three in a couple of days. Go summer!

Some schools have decided that a D is no longer a passing grade. Apparently, the schools are sick of students just barely scraping by and wanted to raise the standards. I don’t know if it’s just me, but I can’t see it making a whole lot of difference. On the other hand at Queen’s they don’t even bother giving us D’s. The reality is, you’re taking an arbitrary system of judgment along a scale and shifting that scale in one direction. So, all you’ve done is change the arbitrary values that are being awarded. You’re still going to have students that are only doing enough to get by, you’ve just changed how your school is perceived against other arbitrary numerical scales. It makes those schools look worse, but not many schools have a tendency of showing off their mediocre students anyway.